Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01390 · Session 4

The governance of essential ferry services

Closed Submitted 11 May 2011 Transport
Signatures
1
Comments
0
Considered
5 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to support the setting up of an independent expert group to consider and recommend institutional and regulatory options for issues relating to the provision of competitively tendered Scottish ferry services under EC law.

What the petitioner did first

I have represented the issues documented in this petition on numerous occasions to the Scottish Parliament and to Scottish Ministers including in inquiries into ferry tendering in all three sessions of the Scottish Parliament starting in 2001. Some of the interchanges are documented in the background to the petition. None of this has resulted in satisfactory action undertaken by Parliament or the Scottish Executive/Government in my view which is why I felt I had to have recourse to petition in order to adequately express the nature of the problem and a possible way forward.
I have discussed both the principle of the independent expert group and the intention behind this petition as well as earlier drafts with my constituency MSP and two list MSPs for my region and have received encouragement and positive comments on both counts. Without prejudice to any comments they may make on this I believe that more than one MSP will support this petition as submitted here.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 28 Jun 2011
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 6 Sep 2011
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 5 Oct 2011
    Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee
    Petition
    1 mention
  4. 26 Oct 2011
    Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee
    Petition
    1 mention
  5. 9 Nov 2011
    Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee
    Petition
    1 mention

Signatures by country

No online signatures are recorded for this petition; the total above may include paper signatures.

Comments

No public comments.